ARMORY:SEALs Standard Weapon Loadout

Heckler & Koch MP5 M60 Machine Gun M4 Light Machine Gun M16 Automatic Rifle Colt .45 Sig Sauer 9226 Hekler & Koch P9S Smith & Wesson .357 M203 Grenade Launcher M79 Grenade Launcher MK19 Grenade Launcher M14 Sniper Rifle Shotguns

M14 Sniper Rifle

Seeking a lightweight replacement for the M1 Garand and the M1918A2 BAR, The Army selected the M14 rifle in 1957. Production of the M14 rifle was halted in 1964, by which time 1,380,874 had been manufactured. The M14 7.62 mm rifle is a magazine-fed, gas operated shoulder weapon, designed primarily for semi-automatic fire. It was the standard service rifle until it was replaced in the late-1960s by the 5.56mm M16A1 rifle. At one time the standard issued rifle for Marines, the M14 is now used primarily in the Competition in Arms program, or for drill and ceremonial purposes. The M16 replaced the M14 as the Table of Organization rifle for the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War.

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